The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-04-15
FOREIGN.
Chamberlain Makes a Fiery Speech
at Ayr.
He Is Alternately Interrupted With
Cheers and Kisses.
A Personal Explanation by Redmund
In Parliament.

ho hao iecoiFcu NUMEROUS letJerS warning
him that he will not leave Scotland alive
Speaking to an assemblage Of $500 persons
Mr.. Chamberlain said: Opponents of the
crimes bill have made an outcry against the
repression Of liberty. Liberty to do what
To commit theft. to ruin industrious men, tc
outrage women. (Hisses mingled with
cheers.) What are you kissing, the crime Of
the punishment"
Here q man rising and menacing Mr.
Chamberlain, cried: ''It is not characters
tic Of the Irish to outrage women"
An attempt was made to turn the man
out, but Mr.. Chamberlain cried; 'Leays
him alone"
Then he continued: "Do you want in.
stances of insults being offered to women
Cries of outrage, you said, you SANDER the
Irish.) 1 did not mean the grossest outrage
of all, but personal violence and insults
(Hisses and cheers.) | referred to cases like
that of the Curtin family, where the lives OF
the widow and daughters Of the murdered
man were made int0lerable; like that Of the
widow OF another murdered man, Pyers,
who, while accompanying the dead body of
the street" Here the speaker was inter-
rupted by cries Of Watch YOURSELF" Kisses
and general disorder.
Il am relating facts to which even my op-
p0nents might listen in silence of horrors and
shame. When / refer to assassination a man
here says, take care Of Yourself Has the
time come when we dare not discuss politi-
cal matters in this country without being
threatened with assassination? Great
cheering) This is the spirit of the parties
In convention in Chicago. l am sorry to
know that they have any representatives in
Scotland. Cries Of they are not Scotchmen.)
That convention besides being attended by
delegates honestly In sympathy with Ireland
had delegates Of a different stamp, apostles
OF outrage and murder, who are paid OUT
rage mongers OF England. Mr.. Redmund,
delegate OF the Irish parliamentary party,
explicitly declared before the convention
that it was the aim Of that party to effect the
entire separation of Ireland from England,
and that their policy was TO make the gov
ernment of Ireland by England impossible.
This they seem to effect by the most immor-
al conspiracy ever devised In the civilized
land; by contending for liberty to violate
every law, human and divine. Do you think
it Infamous to restrain these men? (Cheers.)
Mr.. Parnell threatened in the House of Com
mons, under the specious guise Of warning,
would be renewal Of outrages, dynamite
explosions, and attempts to assassnate our
statesmen. This grim suggestion may prove
the death warrant of some of us. (Cries of
no, shame.l What happens to individuals is
not OF much consequence. The danger Is to
the commonwealth. For the first time in
English history our foes have sympathiZers
within our ancient fortress. Their plan of
attack finds encouragement from those who
ought to be strongest defenders Of our cita-
del This makes our task more arduous,
but we shall not shrink; we will not abate
one jot; we will not yield to threats from
whatever quarter they come, but we will en-
deavOr to hand down unimpaired to our
children the unity, strength and honor of the
mighty empire our forefathers bequeathed
u.s."
Mr. Chamberlain's speech excited all par
ties, The Uni0nists consider it a declara-
tion Of war to the knife with the Separatists.
The Gladstonians charge Mr.. Chamberlain
with slandering and vilifying his former coli
leagues by lnsinuatiOn that they sympathiZe
with the perpetrators of outrages in Ireland.
1t Is asserted that during his tour through
Scotland, MIR. Chamberlain will be attended
by private guard.
Mr.. Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland,
intlmated in the House Of Commons this af-
ternoon that no salary would be attached to
the office Of Under Secretary for Ireland
made for Col. King Harman. The govern
ment were aware, Balfour said, when they
appointed the incumbent, that the appoint
ment. would be attacked. They had taken
the highest legal advice, and had been in
formed that their action was legal. In addi-
tion to this, Balfour lsaid the new Office did
not involve, in its acceptance by member
of the House, of Commons the necessity of
his resigning his seat and re-contesting it
for reelection, because the Office was not a
place Of profit or emolument under the
crown.
Mr.. Gladstone said that precedent required
Col. King Harman to vacate his seat and
seek reelection. Mr.. Gladstone said when
he represented Oxford University he accept
ed for short period place in the govern
a nj or laFa Iod
vice vacated his seat and stood for re-elec-
tion.
John Redmond made personal explana-
tion with reference to his speech at the Chi
cago convention, and said that Mr.. Cham
be rlain in his speech at Ayr had represented
working for removal of their grievances,
whereas, what he did say was that they were
not working solely for the purpose of remov-
ing the material grievances Of the tenants,
but to obtain political reform also; and,
further, when he said the government Of Ire
land by England was impossible, his allusion
was to centralized government. He believed
it possible that a settlement could be effected,
honorable alike to England and to Ireland,
such as was offered by Gladstone's bill, (cries
Of hear, hear.
Sir Lyon Playfair resumed the debate on
the coercion bill. While admitting the diff.
Guilty in certain cases of procuring convic
tions in Ireland he said the acts were
not so serious as the government alleged
In England the percentage Of con
yictions was. "a. In Ireland it is 70
The paucity Of detections in Ireland wa:
due to two distinct causes: First, the Irisl
police were an armed military body, they
did not mix with other people and were un
fit for detective work. The second Parlia
ment had by laws heretofore passed so alien
ated the people that they. regarded law a
their natural enemy. (Cries OF hear, hear
This bill would increase that enmity. 81
arbitrary were the bills provisions that i
would be impossible for tenants to combine
to try to get rents reduced without becoming
liable to arrest and imprisonment. In thu
past 100 years 1856 coercion acts had met Will
unvarying failure. The government ought
to know that for obedience to law there musi
be in the minds of the governed belief that
laws are based on right and justice. (Hear,
hear) Let the government give Ireland in.
stitutions in accordance with Irish senti.
ments under which the law would be the
law of their own country, and order and
prosperity would succeed prevailing disorder
and distress. (Cheers.)
Sir George Trevelyan. one Of the UniOnist
leaders, and formerly Chief Secretary for
Ireland, has written a letter on the coercion
bill, which Is tantam0unt to a manifesto
against that measure He says that really
the bill is chiefly aimed at politicians anC
editors opposed to the governments policy
and therefore that notorious partisans, lik,
Holmes, the present Attorney General ol
Ireland, and Colonel King Harman, the new
ly appointed Parliamentary Secretary fo
Ireland, are unfit to administer the law 1
passed. mo true Liberal" he says, cough
to entrust such powers to them. When Lore
Spencer repeatedly refused to suppress th,
league no word of remonstrance emanateC
from the Liberals. 1t Is inconceivable tha
the Liberals can now support the measure
empowering the executive to treat Irisl
politicians as common criminals. In 1888;
5000 Orangemen on one occasion disturbed
National League meeting. their action lead
ing to bloodshed and necessitating calling
out of the troops to presefxe the peace
Col King Harman and HolmeS activity de
Tended these unwarrantable proceedin IS
There is not the slightest doubt that in thu
event of the recurrence of such action the
Orangemen would beliable under the clause:
Of the present bill to punishment as crimi-
mails, but the government has effectively pro.
vided against this contingency by proposinI
to enact that the House Of Lords may veto
proclamation by the Lord Lieutenant. The
full weight of this terrible, lbut one-side(
measure, is intended to fall, and will fall up
on the politicians of one party alone. III,
measure will be administered by those VIII,
beyond a question are actuated by tn,
strongest Orange sympathies, and 1t is calcu
lated to exasperate the people without serv
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